Windows
By now the house is pretty much built, and now we’re getting to the fun stages of picking out all the finishes and watching them get installed! Windows started last week, but there were still some windows that took longer to arrive (arched ones, oval ones, etc). But those came late this week!! Super exciting! There’s still just a couple of windows that are missing – the arched window over the entry, the oval window for the front gable and one of the oval windows in the great room. Besides those, I think we’re pretty much done with windows.
Doors
The exterior doors arrived, all primed, in their jambs and ready to be installed. I absolutely love them, don’t they look amazing??
A lot more of the windows have been installed this week.
The windows in the dining room arrived and were installed!
This is the north side of the house – on the upper level is the master bedroom, and Spencer’s bedroom is on the lower level.
The back of the house looks so good now that the windows are there!
The front door was installed and it looks great! It’ll be fun to see it finished once that last window above the door is installed.
The 6’8″ french doors in the great room were installed – they look how fantastic with the transom windows above them. Still missing one last oval window up top though!
In the kitchen, the banquette bench was installed this week along the back wall of windows.
Here’s another view of the kitchen, lots of natural light with windows and doors. Love it!
And one of my favorites is the dutch door heading to the back deck from the kitchen.
The back french door in our bedroom was installed.
Also in our master closet we added a small bench. With how much Joel travels, it’s the perfect spot to pack his luggage.
This is by far my FAVORITE window in the house – it’ll be located above our antique clawfoot tub in the master bathroom. Just something fun and different to make a statement.
We skipped the transoms downstairs and installed taller 8’0″ doors in the rec room.
The only issue is with the front mudroom door. It’s a dutch door (so excited about that), and it should have had some extra cuts & pieces on the top half of the door (called “dado cut”) so that when the doors close, there’s weatherstripping and so that the two doors “catch” and stay together. Well, the bottom 1/2 of the door looks great, but the top half is missing it. So back to the manufacturer it goes! Not really a big deal, but such a bummer because it’s such a cute door, and on the front of the house!! Why can’t it be some side door that they screw up on? Murphy’s law!
Here’s the dutch door for the mudroom front door. Isn’t it cute with the X detail in the bottom half? It’s the only door we ordered like that…I thought it would be fun for the front of the house.
The bottom of top half of the door should have been dado cut like this. Instead, the one we got just has a flat bottom. Back to the factory it goes!
The other doors all look fantastic though, It’s such a bummer that they primed the doors so now we can’t see through them, but I promise they’ll look even more fantastic when you can actually see through them! For now, just getting them in and seeing the shape is good enough for me.
Coastal Hues 